TY - BOOK AU - Lew,Alan TI - This is real and you are completely unprepared: the Days of Awe as a journey of transformation SN - 9780316830201 (paperback) PY - 2018///] CY - New York PB - Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company KW - High Holidays KW - Spiritual life KW - Judaism KW - Rites and ceremonies N1 - "Originally published in August 2003."; 1; The Soul Stretches Out to Contain Itself: A Map of the Journey; 3 --; 2; Everywhere He Went, He Was Heading for Home: Teshuvah; 19 --; 3; I Turned, the Walls Came Down, and There I Was: Tisha B'av; 35 --; 4; The Horn Blew and I Began to Wake Up: Elul; 64 --; 5; This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: Selichot; 93 --; 6; The Horn Blows, the Gates Swing Open, and We Feel the Winds of Heaven: Rosh Hashanah; 113 --; 7; What the Soul Does While the Gates Are Still Open: The Ten Days of Teshuvah; 151 --; 8; The Soul Hears Its Name Being Called: Kol Nidre; 176 --; 9; Death and Yom Kippur Atone; 212 --; 10; The Gates Clang Shut: Neilah; 256 --; Epilogue: The Stars Are Shining on My Head: Sukkot; 263 N2 - A guide to the Days of Awe, a period in which members of the Jewish faith participate in a series of prayers and rituals that reenact the soul's experiences of a lifetime and open themselves to God ER -